Game



March 24, 1925. 1,530,490

J. E. GOGGIN GAME Filed Dec. 4', 1923 .Dwenl'or: JbhnE. Goggiw, v

Patented Mar. 24, 1925.

JOHN E. soeelN, or LINDEN, MASSACHUSETTS.

GAME.

Application filed. December 4, 1923. Serial No. 678,507.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that J OHN E. GoeeIN, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Linden, in the county of Middlesex, in the State of Massachusetts, has invented certain new and useful Improvements in Games, of which the following is a specification. I v

This invention relates to games and has for its object the production of a game which will afford much amusement. 7

It consists in a card or board having printed or otherwise superimposed thereon the representation of a flower, preferably a daisy, with a plurality of petals one half of which are provided with a plurality of clifferent titles or designations, combined prefcrably with pictorial representations in keeping with said titles or designations, while the other and opposite half of said petals are provided with statements designed to be associated with the various characters indicated by said titles or designations.

The invention further consists in providing said card with a rotatable double ended pointer, one end of which will point at one of said statements when the other end is pointing at a selected title or designation.

The invention further consists in certain novel features and arrangement of parts which will be understood readily by reference to the description of the drawings and to the claims to be hereinafter given.

For the purpose of illustrating the invention, one preferred form thereof is illustrated in the drawings, this form having been found to give satisfactory and reliable results, although it is to be understood that the various instrumentalities of which the invention consists can be variously arranged and organized, and the invention is not limited to the precise arrangement and organization of the instrumentalities as herein shown and described, except as required by the scope of the appended claims.

Of the drawings:

Figure 1 represents a plan of a game embodying the principles of the present invention,

Figure 2 represents a vertical section of same on line 2, 2 on Fig. 1, and

Figure 3 represents an inverted plan of a portion of the game and showing the means of mounting the pivot pin on which the pointer rotates.

Similar characters indicate like parts throughout the several figures of'the drawing.

In the drawings 10 is a card or board havmg printed or otherwlse represented thereon the outline 11 of a flower, such as a daisy,

provided with a plurality of petals 12, 13,

the number of petals 12 being equal to the number of petals 13. Obviously a. greater or lesser number of petals may be used than the exact number illustrated in Fig. 1.

The petals 12 have thereon titles or designations 14, such as Rich man Poor man Beggar man Thief etc. etc., while the other petals 13 have statements '15 thereon, such as He loves me or He loves me not.

The above statements are used as a way of illustration but it is quite obvious that many other statements may be used equally as well. The same is true of the designations 14:, for these may be varied at will. Y

Preferably these titles or designations 14 are combined with pictorial representations such as that indicated at 16, which illustrates the particular class to which the designation 14 on that particular petal is applied while other pictorial representations 17 may be displayed upon the petals 13 if desired.

For convenience only one of these particular pictorial representations is shown in the drawings, but preferably each designation 14 has a suitable pictorial representation 16 combined therewith. In the center of the daisy is a small pin 18 on which is rotatably mounted a disk 19 having oppositely disposed pointers '20 extending therefrom.

This disk is adapted to be twirled about the pin 18. In playing the game the disk 19 is twirled about the axis of the pin 18, and when it stops one pointer will point to the designation Lawyer for instance, while the other pointer will point to the statement He loves me not, and the lady player will have her fortune told to the extent of learning that her lawyer friend fails to love her.

The game may be played indefinitely and varied to suit different conditions.

Where a board is used the pin 18 may project therefrom but when the game is made of cardboard and intended to be mailed it is desirable to have some means of mounting the pin 18 whereby itmay lie fiat against the bottom of the card 10 when not in use. This end is accomplished by providing the pin 18 with a shank 21 embedded between two, strips 22 of material which are glued together to form a bearing for the shank 21 and in which said shank is adapted to oscillate from the position shown in Fig. 3 tothe posit-ion shown in Fig. 2. One,

end of the strips 22 is secured at 23 to the bottom face of the carcl 10.

lVhen the use of the cardboard game is desired the pin 18 is, turned vertically to the strip 22; and its. end inserted through a hole in the center of cardboard and the pointer disk 19, placed; thereon. The operation and many advantages of the invention will be thoroughly understood from the foregoing description.

Having thus, described my invention, I claim:

1. A board having a representation of a flower thereon; designations on a plurality of the petals thereof; statements on other petals opposed thereto; a centrally disposed pivot pin; and a rotatable double ended pointer thereon, of which one end is adapted to, point to, one of said designations while the opposite end points to a statement adapted to be associated with the selected designation.

2. A board having a representation of a flower thereon; designations and pictorial representations on a plurality of the petals thereof; statements. on other petals opposed thereto; a centrally disposed pivot pin; and a( rotatable double ended pointer thereon, of

which one end is adapted to point to one of said designations while the opposite end points to a statement adapted to he asso ciated with the selected designation.

3. A board having a representation of a flower thereon and a central opening therein; designations on a plurality of the petals thereof; statements on other petals opposed thereto; a strip secured at one end to the back of said board; a pin mounted in the free end of said strip. for insertion through said central opening; and a double ended pointer adapted to be rotatably mounted on said pinf 4. A board having a representation of a flower thereon and a central opening therein designations on a plurality of the petals thereof; statements on other petals opposed thereto; a strip secured at one end to the back of said board; apin mounted in the free end of said strip for insertion through said central opening and adapted to he oscillated into. contactwith said strip when not positioned in said opening; and a double ended pointer adapted to he rotatably mounted on said pin Signed by me at 746, Old South Bldg. Boston, Mass. this, 30th day of November,

J OHN E., GOGGIN. ll itnesses VALTER E. LoMnAnD, N THAN C. LOMBARD. 

